Medicine: Helpful Fright

If a tuberculosis patient is depressed and apathetic, his disease is
likely to get worse despite the best of medical care. If a patient is
always tense and angry and bucks his necessarily slow treatment he is
not apt to improve very fast. But if a depressed patient can be made to
snap out of it by sudden fright or sudden anger, he will probably begin
to get better right away.

Doctors, who have long known that there is a rough relationship between
TB and the emotions, had these facts spelled out for them last week at
the Los Angeles meeting of...